Do you really see people leaving as further abuse of you? I mean, if one of your friends here were to leave, wouldn't you still keep in contact with them?

I still don't know about the games. Maybe I'm naive, but I can think of only about 2 people during our 3 years here that I truly thought were playing games for their own entertainment. I THINK that most of the time when people threaten to leave, it's because they are feeling hurt and are retreating to lick their wounds, but hope that the other members would ask them to stay.

I just think of the times when I've had friends here who have decided to leave. If I thought they were serious, I immediately PMed them and gave them my contact info so that we could keep in touch outside of PC. In most cases, I still do keep in touch with those people. They weren't abandoning ME personally. I think in some of the cases here, when people leave PC, they aren't abandoning the members personally -- just the overall overwhelming society here.

That's how I see it, anyway.